Maurizio Cattelan's Comedian sells for 6.24 million dollars at Sotheby's

[Andrew]

After a heavy marketing campaign, conceptual artwork consisting of just banana taped to the wall was sold to cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun for more than 6 million dollars.

[Nicholaas]

It is relevant. I had a similar idea a few years ago to stun people with million-dollar banana prices straight in Key Food. But it was not realizable. The value of money is due to the reputation of governments, so the artist's brand commands the artist's price. In an era of computers and 3d printers, when everything could be made in seconds, the value of childish conceptual jokes and the idea of putting a price on someone's reputation is quite a humanist approach.

[admin]

Well, if money is gained quite playfully by some people, it might be an offense to millions of hard-working people. Should we expect million-dollar carrots, cucumbers, and tomatoes to follow? The carrot could be titled Laugh, and the cucumber could be titled Escape from Boredom or Green Thing. And tomato! It must be titled Capitalist!

[Justaboy]

They say it should spark debate on what art is. Anything could be art. But price! Price is a bigger art in the case. But that is for sure this sale will provoke many crazy artists to produce similar artworks and just never sell them even for 10 dollars. Because no artist can match the brand power of Maurizio and the marketing outreach of Sotheby's.

[Nicholaas]

Is this sale a harbinger of the imminent hyperinflation of the dollar? Indeed, a lot of fuss over one simple work. Or rather, how much it was valued and sold for. Such examples of conceptual art are already well known to art connoisseurs. Galleries have seen trash as art, urination as performance and much more. In my opinion, the hyperinflation of the dollar could be triggered by the collapse of the usual high prices for American real estate and the long-awaited saturation of the market with factory and prefabricated houses, which could cause chaos in other markets and significantly reduce the value of real estate investments, hitting other industries with a chain reaction. Is Maurizio Cattelan's Comedian really that simple. The artist is also known for sculptures of hanged children, the Pope killed by a meteorite and Adolf Hitler kneeling in the Warsaw Ghetto itself, where millions of his victims were killed. The artist has now created an installation, Sunday, in which he presents panels covered in gold and riddled with bullets, in reference to the theme of American gun violence and other outrages against which wealth, in his opinion, is no defense.